From: Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu>
Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:53:41 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2014-06-19T07:53:41+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnlq55o1.i0l.lithiumcat@nat.rebma.instinctive.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lnsgkc$lsm$2@dont-email.me
On 2014-06-18, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
> On 06/18/2014 12:09 AM, Natasha Kerensikova wrote:
>>
>> And has been already pointed out (IIRC by Jacob Sparre Andersen), the
>> "2% argument" doesn't really counter that, since compiler avilability
>> probably drives away a significant part of those 2%ters.
>>
>> Myself, for example. I'm here only because a few years ago, sheer luck
>> made me stumble upon wikipedia page for Steelman requirements, and
>> because GNAT-AUX made Ada available freely on my platform of choice
>> (FreeBSD/intel, which I believe to be a comparatively easy target).
>
> This is more likely the reason many software engineers don't use Ada: they are
> not aware of it.
I would certainly help a lot to have better Ada advertising, but that is
easier and faster to fix than deep technical hurdles.
> You stumbled upon Ada by accident; how many others who would
> use Ada have not been so lucky? I don't think free-compiler availability is part
> of it.
I told my story because free compiler availability played as much of a
role as advertisement.
Imagine I stumbled upon Steelman requirements three years earlier. I
would still have thought that this is exactly what I want from a
programming language, and checked out what came out of it: Ada. But
then, I would have discovered there is no Ada compiler for my usual
platform. I might have given it a try using an old linux box if the
timing as good, but then I would still have been put out by the
pascalish look. So I would have discarded it, thinking that was a nice
try.
And then I would still be doing pedantic and over-instrumented C.
> There are free compilers for the most common development environments
> (Windows and various forms of Unix) to allow such people to learn and experiment
> with the language. Once they get to the point of wanting to use it on obscure
> platform X they're already hooked.
The situation is certainly better now than when I started, as far as
host platform goes.
But still, I'm not sure playing with Ada on host platform is enough to
hook people (assuming they are in the 2% or otherwise "fertile ground"
for Ada). I would rather think they get hooked after their first "real"
project (at least I was, and extending to other favorite languages many
people I know were).
If their current real projects target Android UI, iOS, "smart home", SDR
boards, etc, after having played with Ada they would reluctantly shelf
it in favor of a language that actually does the job. Just like me in my
hypothetical alternate history above.
So I guess it's a matter of estimating how much of the "fertile ground"
matches the previous paragraph. My unfounded guess is a significant
proportion.
Natasha
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2014-06-03 1:37 a new language, designed for safety ! Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-06-04 0:21 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-06-04 1:19 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-04 4:05 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-04 6:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-06-04 4:12 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-04 5:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-06-04 15:25 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-04 19:43 ` Robert A Duff
2014-06-04 21:32 ` Simon Clubley
2014-06-05 9:13 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-06-05 15:33 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-06-05 19:19 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-06-05 15:55 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-06-05 19:15 ` sbelmont700
2014-06-05 22:40 ` Robert A Duff
2014-06-06 15:13 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-06 17:51 ` G.B.
2014-06-06 18:39 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-06-06 19:43 ` Robert A Duff
2014-06-06 20:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-08 9:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-06-08 13:56 ` Robert A Duff
2014-06-08 16:13 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-08 17:22 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-06-08 19:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-09 5:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-06-09 7:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-09 16:07 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-10 7:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-10 16:31 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-10 16:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-06 18:52 ` Robert A Duff
2014-06-06 22:50 ` Simon Clubley
2014-06-23 0:40 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-06-23 0:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-06-23 0:51 ` Shark8
2014-06-23 1:47 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-06-23 6:46 ` Shark8
2014-06-23 14:17 ` Peter Chapin
2014-06-23 15:39 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-23 17:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-05 8:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-06-09 10:03 ` Pascal Obry
2014-06-10 9:36 ` Stephen Leake
2014-06-10 10:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-06-10 18:31 ` Pascal Obry
2014-06-23 1:01 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-06-10 12:28 ` Simon Clubley
2014-06-10 12:42 ` Lucretia
2014-06-10 12:50 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-06-10 13:00 ` Lucretia
2014-06-10 14:43 ` Brad Moore
2014-06-10 15:15 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-06-10 20:28 ` Simon Clubley
2014-06-10 20:39 ` Pascal Obry
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2014-06-11 7:17 ` Pascal Obry
2014-06-25 22:37 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-06-10 22:09 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-06-12 23:58 ` Shark8
2014-06-13 1:28 ` Luke A. Guest
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2014-06-26 1:36 ` Shark8
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2014-06-25 22:40 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-06-26 7:39 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-06-26 7:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-06-26 10:07 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-06-26 10:18 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-02 22:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-06-11 0:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-06-11 7:29 ` Simon Clubley
2014-06-11 19:22 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-06-12 11:48 ` Simon Clubley
2014-06-12 16:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-06-10 15:33 ` Lucretia
2014-06-10 16:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-10 19:34 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-06-11 6:46 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-06-11 8:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-11 9:05 ` Simon Wright
2014-06-11 12:09 ` Simon Clubley
2014-06-11 12:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-11 12:42 ` björn lundin
2014-06-11 13:04 ` Lucretia
2014-06-11 12:11 ` björn lundin
2014-06-10 19:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-06-10 22:09 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-06-11 9:01 ` Simon Wright
2014-06-16 16:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-06-16 17:11 ` Ada platforms and pricing, was: " Simon Clubley
2014-06-17 19:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-06-17 20:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-06-18 5:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-06-18 6:34 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-06-18 19:57 ` Simon Clubley
2014-06-19 3:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-06-22 19:50 ` Simon Clubley
2014-06-22 23:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-06-23 6:18 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-06-23 7:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-23 11:17 ` Simon Wright
2014-06-23 17:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-23 19:21 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-23 20:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-23 21:48 ` Simon Wright
2014-06-24 1:18 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-06-24 2:15 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-06-24 7:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-23 21:52 ` Simon Wright
2014-06-24 1:04 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-26 3:24 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-06-26 3:27 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-06-24 1:01 ` Shark8
2014-06-24 10:24 ` Simon Wright
2014-06-24 11:25 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-24 15:55 ` Shark8
2014-06-24 18:06 ` Dan'l Miller
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2014-06-24 18:49 ` Shark8
2014-06-24 21:25 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-06-24 16:48 ` Simon Wright
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2014-06-23 20:40 ` Simon Wright
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2014-06-23 11:48 ` G.B.
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2014-06-25 17:24 ` Niklas Holsti
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